Romney Marsh
Britishnoun
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a marshy area of SE England, on the Kent coast between New Romney and Rye: includes Dungeness
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a type of hardy British sheep from this area, with long wool, bred for mutton
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Visitors can pay for milk, pickles, meats, fruit juices and fresh vegetables sourced from suppliers on The Romney Marsh by tapping their bank cards and smart phones.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
Sonny Spencer, Romney Marsh coastguard, said: "I've never come across anything so large in the water in the eight years I've been doing this job."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023
The cycling club members reached back into their memories, to describe routes they had followed, including through Romney Marsh where Caroline was discovered.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2021
These stories are sparked by a coastguard’s interception of a boat of 18 Albanian asylum seekers off the coast of Dickens’s Romney Marsh, at Dymchurch.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2017
For years his house, in a lonely situation in the dreariest part of Romney Marsh, had been the favourite house of call for Jacobites bound for St. Germains or returning thence.
From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John
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